28 April 2015

Pentagon: 'Disturbing' new cyberthreats from China, Russia

MARCH 26, 2015

Top Pentagon officials are warning Congress about threatening new cyber warfare attacks from China and Russia that may require a change to tactics to allow the military to strike back — instead of the Obama policy of simply playing defense. 

Sen. John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, revealed that he just received a "disturbing" secret briefing from the military's best cyber experts. The Arizona Republican told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies that the threat is apparently so large that it is time to start an offensive cyber war. 

McCain ended his address by mocking so-called "secret" briefings where he usually learned what he had read in the newspaper "the day before." 

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